Nuclear Power

Can Nuclear Power Save the Planet OR Is It Possible to Build Reactors Fast Enough to Save Us from Climate Change? By Marilyn Elie Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition eliewestcan@gmail.com Have you noticed a lot of articles lately about how good nuclear power is for the environment, especially as an answer to climate change? The Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade and publicity group for the industry is running a full court press on this topic right now. You can always tell an article based on NEI talking points. It invariably starts out by calling nuclear energy carbon free – [...]

In this visual episode of WBAI FM radio’s Eco-Logic, hosts Ken Gale and Donna Stein talk with 2 people about the 40th. anniversary of the Pennsylvania Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power disaster. Dr. Heidi Hutner, teacher, videographer, film producer, writer, environmentalist, at Stonybrook University, and Diane D’Arrigo, director of the Nuclear Waste Project at the Wash., D.C., based Nuclear Information and Referral Service (NIRS), discuss the past, present and future of nuclear energy usage. They all are accompanied by Joel Landy, musician and song writer, who precedes and [...]

Ken Gale dedicates a full hour broadcast to exploring the clearwater fest in Peekskill, NY. The 2019 Clearwater Festival Saturday and Sunday June 15th and June 16th Tickets, Volunteering and Info: https://www.clearwaterfestival.org/ [...]

The Peace Crane Ceremony at the Gates Of Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant: Jun-san Yasuda of the Grafton Peace Pagoda is a Buddhist nun who has walked thousands of miles in this country and others in the name of peace. Jun-san is joined by other Peace Walkers in the trek from the Cortlandt train station to the old entrance of Indian Point where she performs her annual Peace Crane ritual. As part of the ceremony, origami paper cranes are left at the gates of Indian Point as both a prayer for safety of the community and as a prayer for the speedy closing of the reactors. Jun-san [...]

CLICK OR COPY AND PASTE THE BELOW LINK TO REACH VIDEO FROM CHANNEL 12 Westchester County, NYS http://westchester.news12.com/story/40016661/residents-call-for-watchdog-board-to-monitor-indian-point-closure BUCHANAN – The closure of the Indian Point plant is scheduled to begin next year, and members of the community say they are already thinking of the safest ways that officials should proceed. They tell News 12 that they’d like to see the state implement a citizens oversight board to act as a watchdog for those who live in close proximity. Their idea is to have a board of 15 [...]

A Clear and Present Danger: Shut Off the Gas at Indian Point (Please note the following correction at 1:39: “The newly constructed 42 inch high pressure gas pipeline runs 115 feet from critical electrical infrastructure at Indian Point. …” The closed captions reflect this correction.) The people who live near Indian Point, with its nuclear power plant ask: Why would putting a gas pipeline within a few hundred feet of a nuclear power plant be a problem? Why keep building larger and larger gas pipelines here or anywhere else, especially near Indian Point? This video [...]

Videographer Peter Eliscu follows the judge’s verdict of the last three defendants who used non-violent civil disobedience to stop the oil/gas corporation, Spectra, from continuing a part of their pipeline next to the nuclear power plant, Indian Point, in Weschester County, NYS. Their defense was to use the “necessity defense” as their reasoning for their actions: we tried everything else and nothing has worked, so this action, this non-violent civil disobedience action, was our next, last and only choice left to us. Therefore, we are all innocence. In [...]

This video explains why New Yorkers should come together to fight the bailout for nuclear reactors that is happening in NYS right now and has been going on for the last year or so on a path to the tune of $7.6 billion dollars over 12 years. NYS energy ratepayers, that’s nearly every household throughout NYS, is subsidizing these nuclear energy corporations on their monthly bill and will continue to do so for 11 more years unless they are stopped. This video represents one of the environmental groups that has launched a legal action to stop it and this is their outreach to [...]

The Nuclear Information and Resource Service, NIRS, is 40 years young this day and year. This video showcases one of the events that they were involved in during the “March For A Clean Energy Revolution” on Sunday, July 24, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and sends them congratulations for their efforts and accomplishments. Tim Judson, the Executive Director, and Diane D’Arrigo from NIRS, along with Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear, Jessica Azulay of Alliance for a Green Economy, Nancy Vann, Gary Shaw and Jeanne Shaw from the Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition and [...]

In this video, we highligh the position of one of our own environmental activists, who has taken on the responsibility of running for elective office as a progressive Democrat on issues important to the people of Westchester: This is Nancy Vann. Nancy Vann, lawyer and President of SenRG (Safe Energy Rights Group), and now a candidate for County Legislator in Westchester County, is a thoughtful environmentalist who is an expert on the issue of climate change. Nancy is concerned about the lack of money devoted to the upkeep of our beautiful parks and shared spaces, [...]